WIVES FOR PEERS
AMERICAN HEIRESSES
RUINOUS EXPEDIENT SUGGESTED REMEDY United Press Association—By Electric TaleeraDli —Copyright Australian Press Association.—United Service. (Received 23rd November, 11 a.m.) ■ LONDON, 22nd Nov. The House of Lords is rapidly becoming Americanised through impecunious peers being forced to marry heiresses, generally from the United States, to restore their fortunes, so the Oxonian, Dr. F. C. Schiller, told the Royal Society. This expedient was sometimes biologically ruinous, as the heiresses wero often the last effort of a degenerate expiring stock. Dr. Schiller suggested as a remedy that when the.first holder of a peerage dies his children and grandchildren should meet to choose one whom they regard as the worthiest successor. Dr. Frederick Schiller was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. For ten years he was instructor andy tutor in Cornell University, New Tork, U.S.A. He is 04 years of age. '
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9
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152WIVES FOR PEERS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 9
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